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Google has recently launched its social networking website, Google+. This has been launched on a trial basis. Only a few who have been lucky have received the invites for joining Google+. Anyone who starts using a social network wants a username or profile name. Like many other apps this application was also missing on the new Google venture. When you wish to share your profile with someone then doing it with your ID can be very cumbersome. A short n easy to remember nick name is the solution to this problem. Finally a solution to this problem has been found. Though the solution is not official but it is a very useful one. Like many other third part apps this is also an application by a third party. There are a few simple steps to get your Google+ nickname and they are as follows:

The website will provide you a link like gplus.to/username. Using this you can easily share your profile with friends and family. Since, this is not a service by Google so you will not be provided with a official link from the website like https://plus.google.com/username. You will definitely find it easy to remember this short URL than long numbers. This will surely making sharing of your profile very simple for you and for those with whom you share. However, Google engineers warn people against the use of this service as it is not a service by Google. They say that they are not sure if service provider is good and if they want then they can redirect the URL of ones profile to some objectionable website.

Those of you who were lucky to receive an invite for Google+ must be wondering how to customize it. Well, the answer to this is an add-on known as Stylish which you can use to customize your Google+ to look like even Facebook!

Currently, the add-on will work only on Firefox browser or Chrome browser. One does feel sorry for Opera and Internet Explorer for this. Just five minutes of your time spent on this cool add-on will transform your Google+ page to a Facebook page. Of course it won’t be exactly similar to your Facebook page but the similarities between the two will be eye catching.

It is just a two step procedure which is as follows:

Step #1 First you need to open the Google’s Extension Marketplace or Mozilla’s add-on site depending upon the browser you are using. The Firefox version will require you to restart your browser. Now you must browse for the Stylish extension on the website. You can find it here.

Step #2 The next step is to click open the extensions page and install it by clicking on its icon.

Now all you have to do is to open your Google+ page and look at the changes. What the extension does is that it removes the dark theme of the original page and replaces it with the serene blue theme of Facebook. It retains the Google+ identity though. After the failure of Google Wave and Ping, this is one more experiment by Google in the social networking market. The services offered by this product of Google have sticked to the headlines lately and also the interest in the service has been consistent. It is still a few months for the service to become public and hopefully Google will be able to convert the interests of people into a significant market share. Google + will also be available on the mobile phones with an iOS app and an Android app ready on the shelf.

If you are looking for a new social networking service, then Google has it right here. Google+ is the latest attempt by Google to bring new social network into real though it is only confined to sending invites. It is new smart way to send as many invites to the addresses you want. Presently the number of invites sent was beyond the expectations of the developer, as a result of which Google has to disable the new invites momentarily but we found the loophole for that! Thanks to the hidden feature in +Circle service.

With the help of this feature, one can send invites to the selected list of email addresses provided the addresses are of Gmail account only. It goes as- just create a new circle “invite” and add addresses to it and then create a post and send. Make sure that you only assign the post to invite the email addresses mentioned in the invite not to public. If you wish to send new invites, better do it fast before Google gets to fix it.

Other than this escape, Google+ was discovered with a bug that enabled the private posts to be televised generally with the use of “reshare” feature, identical to one of Twitter’s function. Google came up with a solution of this bug and cleared that it won’t be a problem once the Google+ is out for wide use. Google+ is the latest try by the company in social networking services after the Buzz and Wave which were an ultimate failure.

Google+ is a combination of company’s marketing gambit and collective ideas for other social networks with the touch of Google in it. As the social networks are the cynosure for media presently, Google is surely trying out in right field with Google+.

Google announced its social network today named Google+ which will revolutionize our world of keeping in touch with our people online. This new service focuses primarily on data sharing and keeping privacy.

Google+ is organized into following five different features: +Circles, +Sparks, +Hangouts, +Mobile and +Huddle, each one of which targets of specific social networking requirements. Although Google has used innovative ideas but it would not be wrong to say that it has taken some good ideas from other social networks and used the in their own way. A blog-post on company’s site says clearly, Google aims at getting more users involved in their ecosystem. The company likes to bring richness as well as nuance of real-life sharing to the software. Company also added that it would be happy to add users, their relationships and interests to make Google better. And so comes the Google+ project.

Here’s a quick overview of all five features of Google+

+Circles is a feature through which users can select what data they want to share with whom by grouping the people in different circles and then assign different data to different circles. This way user can share more information with its family and lesser with formal network people.

+Sparks allows users to chat with like-minded people regarding things they care about. These are similar to simplified message board threads enabling you to chat over a topic with like minded people. Google’s prominent image on the web will give users to access a lot of content and it will invite them into conversations as per their interests.

+Hangouts allows users to start multi-people video chats. This is done as follows: while you are chatting with one of your friend a notification will be sent to all your friends of hat circle thus enabling them to join the video chat.

+Mobile is a feature through which users can share content much in the way they do on facebook. This service’s mobile App allows sharing of pictures and videos using phone’s GPS technology.

+Huddle is a group messaging service which will allow users to group text chats with their friends on the go which may become a replacement to sms.

Ever wondered if you could control your Gmail account using your body gestures? Well, Google has made this possible with Gmail Motion, an application that uses your computer’s built-in webcam and Google’s patented spatial tracking technology.

“Kudos to the Gmail team for bridging the divide,” a Google software engineer says. “I’m eagerly awaiting the next version with ASL turbo boost!” The debut continues Google’s cheeky tradition of April Fool’s Day releases, which have included its mission to Mars and name change to “Topeka,”

Earlier this week, Google announced that it is bringing support for the HTML5 speech input API to the company’s Chrome browser. Now, the catch with that is, users with a microphone will be able to record their speech and have it delivered to a transcription server, while the same speech will be shown up as text within the web app.

It is indeed a great tool as speech input-enabled web apps could help disabled users enjoy cloud computing.